I want to rationalise my css so that I am not continually inventing
classes when I want to create a new effect.
Today I have created a 'pullout' class which has a head, image and body.
I don't want to use an H? because I don't know where that element is
going to sit in a document and I don't want to have to undo any styles
set previously.
So I have .thisHead and .thisImg which are not styled explicitly but
within their context, e.g. .pullout .thisHead {}. This means I have to
re-style .thisHead whenever it belongs to a different parent but at
least I don't have to invent a new class name.
So far so good. But now I have a 'comment' class which follows a set
format except its width changes depending whether it is a short or
medium length.
So I tried class="comment wide" but that doesn't work because .wide is
not set explicitly, only within another style. The alternative is to
have a narrowComment class and a wideComment class because a wide class
with a set width means it can only apply to a 'comment' element.
I've used .larger and .smaller in the past but I have to specify the
increment which gives me no flexibility.
It would be simpler if I were dealing with IDs because I could style my
#comment and add a .wide class and then specify the style for #comment
.wide in my style sheet.
But 'Comment' is not an object, its a type.
So, in effect, I'm looking for a sub class. Does this make sense and is
there a logical solution that's portable and not too exotic?
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